The issue focused on three technology companies: tech giant Apple, global medical technology company Medtronic and biotech research firm AbbVie.

It was an effort to study the science behind genetic engineering to develop drugs that work against blood cancer. The researchers set out to test how different technologies – like laboratory experiments, biological studies and trials in animals – could be used to study whether these techniques were safe and effective.

But scientists have long known that scientific research can run into problems with academic ethics. Research